Birgit Kümmel

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Birgit Kümmel (* 1958 ) is a German art historian , author and editor . In addition, she has been chairwoman of the Hessian Museum Association and director of the Bad Arolsen Museum , which is housed in various buildings in Bad Arolsen , since 2019 .

Life

The Arolsen Residential Palace , one of Birgit Kümmel's several places of work (2010)

Birgit Kümmel studied art history , modern history , folklore and Christian archeology . After cooperating with the Arolsen Museum Association , the State of Hesse and the Waldeck-Frankenberg district as the editor of an exhibition catalog on the former residential town of Arolsen in 1992, for example , she took over the management of the Bad Arolsen Museum in 1993, while at the same time she worked until 1995 Dissertation on the landgrave, iconoclast and art lover Moritz von Hessen-Kassel worked.

Through her numerous publications, such as the Waldeck-Frankenberg museum booklet , Birgit Kümmel not only communicates the local history of the city and its people as well as the listed buildings such as the Arolsen Palace to readers and visitors of the most diverse presentations, some of which are designed as traveling exhibitions , but also often together with other authors and in supraregional collaborations , including contemporary art and its actors such as Ansgar Niehoff , Frank Rödel or Annette Munk .

Fonts (selection)

  • Birgit Kümmel (Ed.), Dieter Alfter: Arolsen. Meanwhile it wants to shine. A baroque residence , exhibition catalog of the organizers City and Museum Association Arolsen in cooperation with the state of Hesse and the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg, ed. on behalf of the city of Arolsen, Korbach: Bing, 1992, ISBN 3-87077-086-4
  • Susanne Korn, Birgit Kümmel: Extreme. Ansgar Nierhoff , exhibition catalog of the organizers Kunsttreff Frankenberg eV and the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in cooperation with the city of Frankenberg, Korbach: Bing, 1993, ISBN 3-87077-089-9
  • Birgit Kümmel (Red.), Rolf Wagner (photos), Hartmut Broszinski (text): Arolsen (illustrated book), 1st edition, Gudensberg-Gleichen: Wartberg-Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-86134-121-2
  • Andrea El Danasouri, Alexandra zu Knyphausen, Birgit Kümmel: Frank Rödel. Paintings, drawings, collages , catalog for the traveling exhibition of the same name from September 24th - November 6th 1994 in Arolsen (Museum der Stadt and Museumverein Residenzschloss) and in Fulda ( Vonderau Museum ) from October 6th - November 5th 1995, publisher: Hessian-Thuringian Fire Insurance Institution, Kassel-Erfurt; Museum of the City and Museum Association Arolsen, Kassel; Erfurt: Hessisch-Thüringische Brandversicherungsanstalt, 1994, ISBN 3-925050-04-3
  • The iconoclast as an art lover. Studies on Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel (1592–1627) (= materials on art and cultural history in northern and western Germany , vol. 23), also dissertation 1995 at the University of Marburg, Marburg: Jonas-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3 -89445-209-9 ; contents
  • Birgit Kümmel (Eds.), Bernd Steltner, Andrea El-Danasouri u. a .: Made in Arolsen. HEWI and the Kaulbachs . Between court handicraft and industrial design , exhibition catalog, Bad Arolsen: Museum Bad Arolsen and Museum Association, 1998, ISBN 3-930930-05-6
  • Birgit Kümmel, Stephanie Hahn, Ingeborg Moldenhauer: Friedrich Wilhelm Maul . A portraitist of the Biedermeier period in Waldeck (= Museumhefte Waldeck-Frankenberg , issue 19), Bad Arolsen: Museum Bad Arolsen, 1999, ISBN 3-930930-07-2
  • Birgit Kümmel, Michael Neumann: The Schreibersche House in Bad Arolsen: This house is enchantingly beautiful ... (= Museum Hefte Waldeck-Frankenberg , Issue 18), Bad Arolsen: Museum Bad Arolsen, 1999, ISBN 3-930930-06-4
  • Birgit Kümmel: Wilhelm von Kaulbach as a draftsman. 1804–1874 , catalog for exhibitions in the castle, museum association and museum Bad Arolsen from September 15 to November 18, 2001, Bad Arolsen: Museum Bad Arolsen; 2001, ISBN 3-930930-09-9 ; contents
  • Birgit Kümmel, Bernhard Maaz (ed.): Christian-Daniel-Rauch-Museum Bad Arolsen , catalog and illustrated book, Munich; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002, ISBN 3-422-06386-2
  • Birgit Kümmel (Ed.), Stephanie Hahn u. a .: Children's worlds of the Kaulbach painter dynasty , catalog for the exhibitions of the same name in the castle, the Museum Association and the Bad Arolsen Museum from May 17 to July 20, 2003, Bad Arolsen: Museum Bad Arolsen, 2003, ISBN 3-930930-11-0
  • Birgit Kümmel, Bernhard Maaz (Eds.), Karl Arndt u. a .: Colloquium on the sculpture of classicism Bad Arolsen , texts partly in German, partly in English, Bad Arolsen: Christian-Daniel-Rauch-Museum, 2004, ISBN 3-930930-15-3
  • Birgit Kümmel (Red.), Bernhard Letters: The renovation of the Arolsen Palace. 1986 - 2009 (= workbooks of the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , vol. 14), Ed .: Waldeckische Domanialverwaltung, State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Stuttgart: Theiss, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8062-2327-9
  • Birgit Kümmel, Udo Reuter (eds.): Barbara Beisinghoff . The law of the star and the formula of the flower. Watermarks, etchings, artist books and installations. Bad Arolsen: Museum Bad Arolsen and Museum Association, 2014, ISBN 978-3-930930-32-6

Web links

  • Contact details in the “Employee Directory ...” of the city of Arolsen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Wurzel (responsible): The association / board on the museumverband-hessen.de site , last accessed on April 2, 2015
  2. ↑ Compare the further museum plan ( Memento of May 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on the museum-bad-arolsen.de page
  3. ↑ a b c Exhibition in Bad Arolsen Castle 1997 in the catalog of the German National Library (together with cross references in the DNB)
personal data
SURNAME Caraway, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1958